Spyware Information: Dialer-Switch
This application is a telephone dialer. It can use your modem to make a telephone call. While some dialers are beneficial (they are supplied by your Internet Service Provider to allow Internet access), others will try to make toll telephone calls and possibly place '911' emergency calls without your permission.
- Size: 193,576 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 13 this month: 0
- Author: Unknown
- Appeared: 5/27/2005
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- Method of infection: Dialer-Switch can be installed via drive-by download.
- Privacy policy: None found.
- Security issues: Dialer-Switch configures your modem to call high-rate pornographic phone lines and charge it to your phone bill.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,656
- Detections this Month: 803
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